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The Victim Services Unit empowers victims by providing them the tools they need to overcome trauma of victimization. They inform victims of their rights and advocate for those rights to be upheld. They respect and encourage each person's right to make their own informed decisions as they navigate the criminal justice system.

Court advocacy for survivors of domestic violence.

Provides support to victims and survivors of drunk drivers, including assistance with financial recovery, bereavement counseling, legal system advocacy.

Crisis Intervention for individuals and families impacted by violence, Trauma Response Team (staff and volunteers) canvass door-to-door in neighborhoods following a homicide or violent incident to invite residents to access AdHoc services and encourage cooperation with delivering much needed justice, Prayer vigils to honor homicide victims, community and youth 24-Hour Hot Lines to receive tips, report missing persons or address neighborhood safety issues, flier distribution by staff and volunteers for missing adults and teens.

Provides medical and legal advocacy for victims of sexual violence. Can accompany victims to hospital, emergency room, police station, and court.

Provides support, education, information and referral services to victims of crime.

Provides legal advocacy such as court order protections and custody support for victims of domestic violence.

Serves as an advocate for crime victims; informs victims and helps them obtain information on Missouri Crime Victim's Compensation Program.

Advocacy and support for victims of violent crime.

Provides victim advocate services for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault and rape, other types of assault, homicide, and victims of drunk driving and other violent crimes.

"Case Management: Strengths-based, client centered, and trauma-informed goal setting, resource referrals, and service linkages emphasizing housing, health, and self-sufficiency for clients assessing shelter and/or outreach services. A full-time Bi-Lingual Case Manager assists clients with limited English proficiency. Targeted Advocacy and Therapy (Hawthorne Place Apartments): Strengths-based, client centered, and trauma-informed goal setting, resource referrals, service linkages, and crisis intervention as well as individual and group therapy services offered onsite at Hawthorne Place Apartments, an income based rental complex located in Independence, MO. Court Advocacy: Assistance in thirteen area courts including order of protection court, as well as lethality assessment programs with nine area municipal police departments. Co-Responding Advocacy: Partnership with the Independence Police Department to provide crisis intervention services, advocacy, and resource referrals and linkages to survivors contacting the police for assistance. The Co-Responding Advocate also coordinates revisits to survivors’ homes with Independence Police officers to offer additional support and resources. Civil Legal Program: Representation to address the broad range of civil legal issues encountered by survivors such as protection orders, child support, child custody, divorce, paternity, etc. Contract Attorneys provide legal representation while a full time Paralegal and Legal Advocate provide support and case management services. Client Assistance Fund: Direct financial assistance to help survivors remove common barriers to achieving self-sufficiency and securing and/or maintaining safe and affordable permanent housing. Specialized and Ancillary Services: Services designed to meet the practical, emotional, and material needs of survivors as they work toward safety, stability, and healing. These services provide for survivors’ basic needs through an onsite clothing closet and food pantry as well as holiday food baskets; offer necessary material goods such as household essentials, school supplies, holiday/birthday gifts; and address survivors’ health, safety and well-being through on onsite dental clinic staffed with volunteer dentists and hygienist and laundry facilities and offering security equipment such as cameras, Ring doorbells, and window/door locks."

A mail forwarding and address confidentiality service for Missouri residents who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking or other crimes and fear future harm. The Safe at Home program forwards first class mail, certified mail and legal documents to help keep victims' location confidential. Participants may also use the substitute address on government records and public filings.

Victim Awareness Project: Provides program where offender is exposed to the impact of their crimes, invited to learn empathy and encouraged to learn new ways of acting and being in the community.

Provides information, support, assistance, accompaniment and intervention with any aspect of the civil or criminal legal system on behalf of a victim.

Provides legal advocacy for victims pursuing criminal charges, explain the process and clarify the options available to the survivors and their families. Serving as a liaison with the police and state's attorney's office, an advocate lends support to the survivor, assists in reporting the crime to law enforcement, helps prepare the survivor for court, and attends the court dates with the survivor.

Assists victims of crimes and their families recover from trauma by providing legal information, referrals, counseling, and more.

Federal Victim-Witness Program aims to ensure that victims of federal crimes are treated fairly, that their privacy is respected, and that they are treated with dignity and respect.

The Victim Assistance program offers victims of crime the assistance they require. The funding is flexible and can help with a wide variety of services. The program is operated in conjunction with the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office as grant funding allows.

The State Department is committed to assisting U.S. citizens who become victims of crime while abroad. We help in two ways: Overseas: consular officers, agents, and staff work with crime victims and help them with the local police and medical systems; and In the United States: our office of Overseas Citizens Services will stay in touch with family members in the United States, and help provide U.S.-based resources for the victim when possible.

• Illinois Crime Victim Compensation Program: Provides direct financial assistance to innocent victims of violent crime and their families.

• Automated Victim Notification System: Gives crime victims across Illinois access to timely and reliable information about criminal cases and offender custody status 24 hours a day via telephone, internet or email.

Provides information, support, assistance, accompaniment and intervention with any aspect of the civil or criminal legal system on behalf of a victim.

Provides advocacy services for crime victims.

Advocate and support persons who are victims of violent crime.

The Kansas crime Victim Compensation Board provides crime victims with financial assistance for loss of earnings and out-of-pocket loss for injuries sustained as a direct result of violent crime. This includes reasonable medical care, mental health counseling and/or other services necessary as a result of the injury.

Provides support to victims who find themselves involved in the criminal justice system.